Welp. 7 yr old now knows mom was arrested by ICE back in November. 7yo: “What happened, mama? Why did they arrest you?” K: “I was trying to help the people ICE was hurting.” 7yo: “Oh. Good job, mama.” 😬 @katiestp.bsky.social

Minneapolis isn't an especially sweary place but there are so many houses that have homemade "FUCK ICE" signs and I've had multiple conversations with parents about how we're okay with our kids using that word in this context because sometimes it IS okay to swear and this is one of those times.

If you exclude healthcare jobs, the US labor market has actually declined for the past 24 months straight. And the healthcare coverage cuts have only just barely started to kick in.

“A fig newton? Pour MOI??”

“People followed wrong AI answers 80% of the time. The effect size for the gap between AI-accurate and AI-faulty trials was massive…Essentially, AI determined the outcomes more than people.” www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...

Early social media wasn’t perfect, just like early MMO message boards weren’t perfect, just like early ICQ wasn’t perfect, just like early AIM wasn’t perfect, just like early BBS’s weren’t perfect, but at least they were strong enough to tell the Nazis to GTFO, unlike our current flaccid techbros

“DHS told the public the new cadets receive all the training they need to perform their duties, that no critical material or standards have been cut," said Ryan Schwank, a former ICE lawyer who was responsible for training new officers. "This is a lie."

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

Did you know that our streets could be safer just by placing traffic signals on the near side of an intersection? Countries around the world with safer streets use this strategy. we should do it here too!

Just five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest in the summer of 2019, federal authorities “directed” the New York Police Department to “stand down” its investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show. www.justsecurity.org/132230/fbi-s...

How Trump responded to the Supreme Court tariff ruling

Last night I watched two different Youtube videos that were objectively wrong - which I knew because I had been present at the events in question - and it really highlights the old saying: The more I read online about things I'm an expert in, the less I trust anything I read on the internet at all.

Thanks to your support Friday, Miles’ ongoing care is covered! Good thing, since the “goober,” as his rescue calls him, already broke one splint. Thankfully, your generosity covers those extra splint changes, too! We're just glad he's happy and healing well. Pupdates to come! ❤️‍🩹

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Dude makes the most out of his 30sec of fame. ♥️ #affordablehousing

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

#ResistanceUnited The Wyoming legislature has been embroiled in an epic scandal. On Feb. 9, the opening day of the legislative session, a right-wing fundraiser went onto the House floor (without authorization) and handed checks to several Repub members. /1 wyofile.com/emotional-ni...

this is what I hear whenever I hear AI proponents hyped about their products

You're looking at three golden tortoise beetles (Charidotella sexpunctata). They're native to the Americas, generally the east coast of North America all the way down to Argentina. The gold coloration is structural, semi-reflective layers in the cuticle selectively reflect wavelengths of light.

A thing that is sticking with me is that last week the president accused Supreme Court members of being under foreign influence. When asked for evidence he gave none. I know we say all the time “this would have been a big deal 15 years ago” but like still, sit and think about this.

Minnesota's top food inventions (in chronological order, not in order of deliciousness) 1) 1919 the pop-up toaster (Stillwater MN) 2) 1923 Mars Candy Bar (St Paul MN) 3) 1937 Spam (Austin MN) 4) 1941 Cheerios (Minneapolis MN) also known for the "Cheerios Effect" in the field of fluid mechanics

Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Charlie Kirk repeatedly pushed the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory and regularly made racist comments in his public statements. If we can't call someone so explicitly racist "a racist" without getting fired, who else is off limits? Donald Trump? Nick Fuentes? David Duke?

airing the BAFTA award ceremony on a tape delay, leaving in a slur, but editing out "free Palestine"?? that too is a choice, and an egregious one at that! archive.ph/YMhlK

see that's that bullshit a tic is involuntary, but BAFTA not saying anything to Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan afterwards is a choice

See @mndot.mn.gov, it *is* possible to not be a coward about these things. Good on you, Chicago! And, as always, fuck ICE!

My least favorite type of reply guy is “Well, what did you expect?” I expected BETTER, Brian, you surrendering bag of Beige, you are not the spokesperson for Accepting Less

Truth has inherent value.

Katie Mack, Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute, spoke with ScienceNewsExplores about her journey to becoming a cosmologist, misconceptions about her work, and challenges in her field. Read the full interview: www.snexplores.org/article/cosm...

LONDON (AP) — Police say former UK ambassador Peter Mandelson arrested in misconduct probe over his ties with Jeffrey Epstein.

And I admit, I came here in all my Threads-induced rage and I said the men could be lonelier and I deleted it because I don't actually want that. But OK I do want that for some of them.

in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you

I've got a new survey out today (part of private polling consulting work I do) that finds Trump's deportation agenda is eroding support for the GOP, and voters want the president to prioritize economics over deportations. W/ direct data on Trump defectors: morrispredictive.com/assets/surve...

I said what I said

you would think that the supreme court is going to have to pick one: either the Clean Air Act regulates greenhouse gases and therefore litigation against fossils corps is preempted OR the repeal of the endangerment finding means that the CAA does NOT regulate GHGs so you can sue you would *think*

Pop! Squirrel of the Day for February 23, 2026 is here to improve your Monday. #sqrlpix

Shit like this makes me crazy.

Imagine winning an Olympic gold medal in men's hockey and then *immediately* destroying every bit of that coolness by partying with a graspy little dork like Kash Patel.

New from 404 Media: how ICE and CBP are using the free walkie-talkie app Zello to coordinate their operations. We've linked multiple Zello accounts to ICE, found group chats with names referencing immigration. App previously criticized for allowing far right channels www.404media.co/how-ice-and-...

There are around 130 safe Democratic districts in this country, but there are not 130 fighting Democrats in the House. Dr. @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social is a fighter (and a scientist, educator, legislator and millennial mom) who is running to replace a conservative Democrat that voted to fund ICE.

“On Feb. 4 — the day border czar Tom Homan announced a ‘drawdown’ of 700 agents — Lewis said ICE agents posed as journalists outside a Fridley school wearing bright orange bands on their arms reading ‘press.’” “‘They were yelling and screaming at our staff, yelling and screaming at parents’”

You do not want the guy who makes cars that lock you inside when they’re on fire in charge of the Kessler Syndrome odds. You just don’t. “The guy obsessed with us leaving the planet ironically was such a dipshit he made sure we could never leave the planet” is heavy handed but tonally appropriate.

Many, many years ago, before I enlisted in the army, I was advised to read the Constitution. To REALLY read it. ‘If you’re going to swear to defend it, if the possibility is there to lose your life defending it, you should know what it says.’ More people should have received this advice.

It’s day 83 of the ICE occupation of MN. On a quieter weekend for ICE in Minneapolis and St Paul, many organizers spent the weekend gathering in person, assessing our response, and figuring out next steps. We’ve built a new world together, and we’re not going to go back to the way things were.

They all just wanted in on it. “Swamp,” my ass.

Nick Shirley: “30 voters registered at a California UPS store!” 🤔 Paul Mitchell: um, people live above it. Look up, bro. 🙃 As usual this dude’s *reporting* is full of holes

the Abominable Snowborb😱😂 #birds

"ICE agents are the equivalent of cartel hitmen" is a wild take, but Mike Lee is here for it.

If he were an admitted Russian agent, he couldn’t do a whole lot more to hurt the country than he already has.

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol